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Particle tracking acceleration via signed distance fields in direct-accelerated geometry Monte Carlo

  • Shriwise, Patrick C.;Davis, Andrew;Jacobson, Lucas J.;Wilson, Paul P.H.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제49권6호
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    • pp.1189-1198
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    • 2017
  • Computer-aided design (CAD)-based Monte Carlo radiation transport is of value to the nuclear engineering community for its ability to conduct transport on high-fidelity models of nuclear systems, but it is more computationally expensive than native geometry representations. This work describes the adaptation of a rendering data structure, the signed distance field, as a geometric query tool for accelerating CAD-based transport in the direct-accelerated geometry Monte Carlo toolkit. Demonstrations of its effectiveness are shown for several problems. The beginnings of a predictive model for the data structure's utilization based on various problem parameters is also introduced.